🇮🇹🎭 "TROVATA UNA SEGA!" – LIVORNO, MODIGLIANI, AND THE LEGENDARY PRANK OF SUMMER ’84 🎭🇮🇹
Sun, May 17
|The Rat NYC
A storytelling for “Actor and Projector” of the infamous 1984 prank in Livorno: the recovery of alleged Modigliani sculptures hailed as masterpieces, only to be revealed as fakes by three students. In Italian with English Supertitles.
Time & Location
May 17, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
The Rat NYC, 68-117 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
About the event
Amid deceived critics, unresolved mysteries, and unintended comedy, it paints a vivid portrait of an Italy ready to believe the legend, never losing its taste for the absurd—truly, “the prank of the century.”
Written & Performed by Antonello Taurino
Presented by Teatro della Cooperativa
Translated by Mauro Ghidoni
Winner of the Tramedautore Festival Selection 2015
Winner of the Calandra Prize 2017, including Best Director Award and Audience Jury Award